I'm planning to re-watch the series and write a few posts on it, though I probably won't get a chance to start right away since my family in it's entirety- a not inconsiderable crowd- is gathering together on the upcoming long weekend. This requires almost the same amount of planning- and food- as a military operation.
I watched the Amazon Prime series Jack Ryan not long after it first came out and quite enjoyed it, though it has it's flaws. I first made the acquaintance of the character of Jack Ryan one summer while babysitting a couple of kids on summer vacation. Their family cottage where we spent a lot of time had full book shelves lining the walls of the living room and I worked my way through quite a few of them over the two months I was there, reading on the dock as the kids swam and played. These books included a couple of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan books- The Hunt For Red October and Patriot Games. I hadn't seen any of the movies at that time, so found the books really interesting and had no idea what was going to happen in them. I haven't read any Clancy since then and frankly, I hadn't really paid too much attention when I heard that this series was in production. When I thought of it at all, I decided that it would probably be the usual boring Ugly American/ Misunderstood Terrorist narrative which we can reliably expect from the Hollywood crowd. To my surprise, when the series aired quite a few sensitive souls started screeching that Jack Ryan was full of toxic patriotism. Reading between the lines, I took this to mean that the series didn't portray the western powers being always in the wrong and eastern ones being uniformly innocent, exploited victims. That the series made so many really annoying people angry piqued my interest in a way the trailer had failed to do, so I decided to give it a try and, as I said, I really enjoyed the eight episodes for the most part. I'm planning to re-watch the series and write a few posts on it, though I probably won't get a chance to start right away since my family in it's entirety- a not inconsiderable crowd- is gathering together on the upcoming long weekend. This requires almost the same amount of planning- and food- as a military operation.
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